Brush and dentifrice bracket.



N0. 670,481. Patented Mar. 26, I90l.

c. KIRK W000. anus AND mzunrmce BRACKET.

(Application filed July 28, 1900.) (No Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT I Trio.

CHARLES A. KIRKWOOD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BRUSH AND DENTIFR ICE BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 670,481, dated March 26, 1901.

Application filed July 23, 1900. seri l N 25,104- (No mod l.)

T0 at; whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. KIRKWOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful.

- and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bracket embodying my invention as adapted for a single bottle of dentifrice, with bottle and brushes in position, illustrating its use. Fig. 2 is .a top plan view, and Fig. 3 a front elevation, thereof free from load. Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a bracket adapted for the reception of two bottles of dentifrice according to my invention, and Fig. 5 is a top plan view of said latter construction.

Various materials may be employed in carrying out the invention, and the ultimate construction may be attained in various ways; but .the simplest and most efficient method now known to me is as follows: I take a single plate of sheet metal and stamp, punch, and bend it, as shown, to form a back or wall piece A, a longitudinal base or shelf B outsetting from the foot or bottom of said back piece and having an upstanding guard or keeper B arranged centrally of its length parallel with the back piece, and a series of notches or recesses O, flanking said guard, opening to the outer edge of the shelf and constituting, as it were, racks for the reception of brushes on each side of the guard.

Above the central portion of the sheif,which affords a seat for the bottles, and opposite the upstanding keeper the back piece is punched or slitted and ears or clips d are bent out therefrom, the number of which will depend upon thenumber of bottles to be held, it being understood that the guard or keeper extends along the base of said bottles and in front thereof. In the first three figures provision is made for but one bottle and there in place.

tion with the seat afforded by the base and with the upstanding keeper, securely hold it The construction represented in Figs. 4 and 5 provides for two bottles, the

clips (1 being placed far enough apart to e'mbrace bothand advisably a central clip or clips (1, formed by slitting and turning up a tongue or tongues, as shown, located between them to keep the bottles apart and hold each independently in its appropriate place. The

wall-piece or back is also perforated, as at e, to receive screws or other fastenings whereby the bracket is hung orfixedly secured to the wall.

The notches 0 along the flanking edges of the shelf should be so formed as to securely retain the brushes against accidental or unintentional disengagement. To this end advantage is takemof the fact that the handles of such brushes are usually formed with narrow necks adjacent to the bristles by providing for engagement of the enlarged portion of the handle or head after the neck has been inserted in the notch. Preferably the notches are formed for this purpose with narrow in- 1. A brush and dentifrice bracket com pris- I ing a back or wall piece, a shelf outsetting from the base thereof, a centrally-arranged guard rising from the edge of said shelf to confine bottles thereon, and brush-receiving notches along the flanking edges of said shelf.

2. A brush and dentifrice bracket comprising a back or wall piece, a shelf outsetting from the base thereof, a centrally-arranged guard rising from the edge of said shelf to confine bottles thereon, tongues or clips outstanding from the back piece opposite said I guard to position and hold the bottles, and brush-receiving notches formed in the edges of said shelf extending either side of the guard.

3. A brush and dentifrice bracket formed of a single sheet of material, with back piece A, shelf B outsetting from the base of said back piece, and notches C out in the edge of said shelf with contracted inlets c and e11- IO larged beyond.

from a single sheet of material, with back piece A, shelf B outsetting from the base thereof, guard or keeper B, notches O flanking said keeper and enlarged beyond their contractedinlets c, and tongues or clips (Z outsetting from the back piece.

CHARLES A. KIRK WOOD.

\Vitnesses:

JOSEPH G. PARKINSON, HARRY P. BAUMGARTNER. 

